成日 (seng4 jat6 | ) : whole day; all the time; frequently; always

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成日

seng4 jat6

[1] whole day; all day long. Mandarin: 整天 [2] all the time; always; constantly; frequently; often　Mandarin: 常常

Level: 2 Google Frequency: 381,000

This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

成日

This word has been viewed 15326 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by tym on 14th Jul 2004 02:25 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03

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成 sing4 seng4 - succeed; achieve; grow; one tenth; whole
日 jat6 - sun; day

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妹妹成日喺度跳跳貢粵
She's always running around madly.
[Lit. little sister all-day at-here running-around]

唔知點解呢排成日都頭痛呀。粵
I don't know why I've been getting so many headaches lately.

呢排我成日都睇電視粵
Recently I've been watching tv all day.

小明成日讚佢自己
Siu Ming is always praising herself.

佢成日都想打韆鞦粵
She always wants to play on the swings.

佢成日掛住去蒲，唔想返學。粵
He'd rather go out partying than go to school.
[Lit. He always miss hang out, not want return school. Less idiomatically: He misses hanging out, he doesn't want to go to school. See http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,134171,page=1]

你成日食嘢唔做嘢；搏炒係咪? 粵
You're forever eating and not doing work; are you trying to get fired?

個仔成日去賭錢，做亞媽嘅都好激氣粵
As a mother, she is very upset with her son gambling.

佢成日喺度寫埋晒啲無聊嘢﹐我都費事睇。粵
He writes so much nonsense that I don't even bother reading it.

小榮真係扭計，成日都冇心機學嘢粵
Siu Wing's always kicking up a fuss about studying, he never has any motivation.
[Lit. Siu Wing really unwilling-to-do-work, all-day also no-heart study things. (This is a good example of a phrase that's really tricky to translate directly.)]

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